Re: ion-3rc-09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.tar.gz

On 5/13/07, Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2007-05-12, Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Every program containing the same slow-to-run, unmaintainable and
> broken M4 mess to check for those 1500 such little conditions, is
> what I call fucked up.
And for that reason let's have 1500 pieces of software each one with
it's own private little "clean and simple" Makefile. Utter bullshit.

> Autoconf is an ad hoc solution typical of
> the FOSS herd and its cherished "worse is better" fallacy, that
> is itself worse a problem than the original [1].
That [1] entry is full of fud also. As for autoconf, it's a known and
tolerable way to get things done IFF you know what you're doing and
don't get bored in 10 minutes just because there's m4 and you can't or
won't read it. Nobody really likes it and it's still there.

> > Does ion3 cross-compile at all, btw? Does luac produce 100%
> > architecture-independent bytecode?
>
> Luac produces architecture dependent code.
So what is fucked up then?

> > Oh right, now with xinerama being supported in ion for so many years,
> > you figured out that problem. However, being a mere luser in the
> > context of window management,
>
> I god fed up with the lusers complaining of the problems whilst
> waving their enlarged penises.
How do you tell an enlarged one from a naturally big one?

> > I don't care since I've never hit any problem with that and now with
> > xinerama support removed my feelings are hurt.
>
> In case you haven't noticed, someone wrote a module that will
>
>         VOID SUPPORT
>
> if installed.
The point is that I did not have to look at how ion works for several
years now and I don't even remember what a module is in this context.
Now I'll have to dig this again and then install everything by hand
once a month. Too complicated for a luser, now that even autoconf is
carved out.

> Yes, and my bicycle has diamond frame. (Seriously, it has.)
And owning a bike is a consumer trend there.

>   [1]: http://iki.fi/tuomov/b/archives/2006/07/04/T21_20_46/
"Life sucks, and then you die." (C)

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